WI no JE Hoover?

Suppose Hoover was not concieved,born a girl or died by 1918.

How much of a difference would it have made?

Would the Bureau or Investigation have become the FBI.

Would paranoia about Communism have been less of a factor in US politics?

Would Stalin's spies have had a bigger impact?

Might another person have dealt with say the KKK more effectively?
 
From what I've read if a certain congressman hadn't died suddenly it would have been more than likely Hoover would have been out of a job.

The Untouchables might have taken over some of their duties.

I would hope that without Hoover the FBI's abuse of power wouldn't have happened...
 
The book (PUBLIC ENEMIES) is in my work truck, I'll check it out tomorrow and have an answer when I get home...
 
Here's the relevant paragraph (from PUBLIC ENEMIES by Bryan Burrough):

"That morning [Roosevelt gave his inaugural address] Hoover was director of the Justice Department's Bureau of Investigation. Not the Federal Bureau of Investigation, it wouldn't get that name for another two years. He had been in office nine years, since 1924, but he had enemies, lots of them, and Roosevelt's men made it clear that he would probably be replaced. The final decision was to be made by the new attorney general, a confirmed Hoover-hater named Thomas Walsh. That Thursday, two days before Roosevelt's address, Walsh, a seventy-two year old senator from Montana, had boarded a train from Miami to Washington with his new bride, a Cuban debutante. Friday morning Mrs. Walsh awakened aboard the train in North Carolina and found her husband dead; whispers in the capital suggested the elderly senator had expired following an athletic bout of sex."
 
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